The Stork's Nest

November 2009

Fred Builds a Pole Barn

With a growing number of "farm vehicles" --
a tractor, including several
attachments, a gator, a riding mower, two 4-wheelers, a
dirt bike -- plus the
need to store my "cheap to run" summer car in
the winter and my 4WD jeep
in the summertime, we felt the need to build a barn for
storage out of the weather.

Fred (and his tractor) did most of the work by himself,
cutting down and
cutting to size trees that could work as the poles for
the barn. Then he
had to drag them out of the woods to the barn site. Then
he set each
of these poles, built a frame for the barn and added
siding.